1930 in poetry

Overview of the events of 1930 in poetry

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## Events

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* Samuel Minturn Peck becomes first Poet Laureate of Alabama, a title created for him.

## Works published

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### Canada

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* Alfred Bailey, Tao: A Ryerson Poetry Chap Book, (Ryerson).[1]
* Wilson MacDonald, Caw-Caw Ballads Montclair, NJ: Pine Tree Publishing.[2]
* E. J. Pratt:
* The Roosevelt and the Antinoe, Toronto: Macmillan.
* Verses of the Sea, Toronto: Macmillan. intr. by Charles G.D. Roberts.
* W. W. E. Ross, Laconics.[3]

### United Kingdom

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* Richard Aldington, editor, Imagist Anthology
* An Anthology of War Poems, compiled by Frederick Brereton
* W. H. Auden, Poems, his first published book (accepted by T. S. Eliot on behalf of Faber & Faber, which remains Auden's publisher for the rest of his life)
* Samuel Beckett, Whoroscope, his first separately published work;[4] Irish poet published in France
* Julian Bell, Winter Movement
* Hilaire Belloc, New Canterbury Tales, illustrated by Nicholas Bentley[4]
* Edmund Blunden, The Poems of Edmund Blunden[4]
* Basil Bunting, Redimiculum Matellarum, his first book of poems, published in Milan
* Roy Campbell, South African native published in the United Kingdom:
* Adamastor[4]
* Poems
* Catherine Carswell, The Life of Robert Burns, biography
* Elizabeth Daryush, Verses
* T. S. Eliot:
* Ash Wednesday
* Marina[4]
* Translator (and writer of the introduction), Anabasis, translation from the original French of Saint-John Perse's Anabase 1924; London: Faber[5]
* William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity, a book of criticism
* Stella Gibbons, The Mountain Beast, and Other Poems[4]
* Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, edited by Charles Williams (see also Poems 1918)[4]
* Brian Howard, God Save the King
* D. H. Lawrence (both posthumous[4]):
* Nettles[4]
* The Triumph of the Machine[4]
* Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, To Circumjack Cencrastus; or, The Curly Snake, written and published in English and Scots[4]
* 'Æ', pen name of George William Russell, Enchantment, and Other Poems[4]
* Edith Sitwell, Collected Poems[4]
* Stephen Spender, Twenty Poems[4]
* Katharine Tynan, Collected Poems
* Humbert Wolfe, The Uncelestial City[4]
* D. B. Wyndham-Lewis and Charles Lee, compilers, The Stuffed Owl: an anthology of bad verse

### United States

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* W. H. Auden, Poems[6]
* Hart Crane, The Bridge[6]
* Babette Deutsch, Fire for the Night[6]
* Richard Eberhart, A Bravery of Earth[6]
* Robert Frost, Collected Poems[6]
* Horace Gregory, Chelsea Rooming House[6]
* Stanley J. Kunitz, Intellectual Things[6]
* William Ellery Leonard, This Midland City[6]
* Archibald MacLeish, New Found Land[6]
* Edgar Lee Masters, Leechee Nuts[6]
* Ezra Pound, A Draft of XXX Cantos,[6] American poet writing in Europe
* Lizette Woodworth Reese, White April[6]
* Edward Arlington Robinson, The Glory of the Nightingales[6]
* Allen Tate, Three Poems[6]
* Sara Teasdale, Stars To-night[6]
* Yvor Winters, The Proof[6]

### Other in English

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* Samuel Beckett, Whoroscope, Irish writer published in the United Kingdom
* Una Marson, Tropic Reveries, the first "noted" collection of poems by a West Indian woman[7]
* Brian O'Nolan, "Ad Astra", in Blackrock College Annual, Irish writer (his first published work)
* Quentin Pope, editor, Kowhai Gold, anthology of New Zealand poetry (published in London & New York)[8]

## Works published in other languages

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### France

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* René Char, Ralentir travaux[9]
* Paul Claudel, Le Soulier de satin, France[10]
* Michel Deguy, French academic, essayist, translator and poet[11]
* Robert Desnos, Corps et biens: poemes 1919-1929[11]
* Léon-Paul Fargue, Sous la lampe[11]
* Henri Michaux, Un Certain Plume ("A Person Called Plume"), in which the character Plume, a symbolic, alienated underdog, first appears[12]
* Pierre Reverdy, Pierres blanches[11]
* Jules Supervielle, Le Forçat innocent[11]

### Indian subcontinent

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Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:

* Ananta Pattanayak, Raktasikha, Oriya-language[13]
* Dimbeshwar Neog, Indradhanu, Assamese-language[13]
* Kazi Nazrul Islam, translator, Rubaiyat-i-Haphij, translated from the Persian quatrains of the poet Shiraji Hafiz into Bengali[13]
* Laxmi Prasad Devkota, Muna Madan, मुनामदन, Nepali
* Maraimalai Atikal, Manikkavacakar Varalarum Kalamum, a two-volume study of Manikkavacakar, a saint-poet of the Saivaite sect, in Tamil; criticism[13]
* Mathuranatha Shastri, adaptor, Sahitya-Vaibhava, various Hindi poems translated into Sanskrit and adapted[13]
* T. P. Meenakshisundaram, Valluvarum Makalirum, on the concept of womanhood in the works of ancient Tamil poets; scholarship[13]
* Yatindranath Sengupta, Marumaya, Bengali[13]

### Spanish language

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* Enrique Bustamante y Ballivián, Junin, Peru[14]
* León de Greiff, Libro de signos, precedido de Los pingüinos peripatéticos; seguido de Fantasías de nubes al viento (Segundo Mamotreto), Columbia
* Federico García Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York written this year, published posthumously in 1940, first translation into English as "A Poet in New York", 1988)
* León Felipe, Veersos y oraciones del caminante ("Verses and Prayers of the Walker"), second volume (first volume, 1920); Spain[15]
* Luis Fabio Xammar, Pensativamente, Peru[16]

### Other

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* Gonzalve Desaulniers, Les bois qui chantent; French language;, Canada[17]
* Jens August Schade, Hjertebogen ("The Heart Book"), Denmark[18]
* J. Slauerhoff, Serenade, Dutch

## Awards and honors

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* John Masefield becomes Poet Laureate of the UK.
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Conrad Aiken: Selected Poems
* Frost Medal: Jessie Rittenhouse and (posthumously) to Bliss Carman, and George Edward Woodberry

## Births

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Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

* January 1
* Adunis or "Adonis" (Ali Ahmad Said Esber), Syrian-born Arabic poet and essayist who makes his career largely in Lebanon and France
* Jean-Pierre Duprey (died 1959), French poet and sculptor
* January 5 - Jesús Rosas Marcano (died 2001), Venezuelan poet
* January 23 - Derek Walcott (died 2017), Caribbean St. Lucian-born English-language poet, playwright, writer and visual artist
* February 15 - Bruce Dawe (died 2020), Australian poet
* March - Alvin Aubert (died 2014), African-American poet and scholar
* March 21 - Roger-Arnould Rivière (suicide 1959), French poet
* March 26 - Gregory Corso (died 2001), American poet
* April 8 - Miller Williams (died 2015), American poet, translator and editor
* May 3 - Juan Gelman (died 2014), Argentine poet
* May 8 - Gary Snyder, American poet, essayist, lecturer and environmental activist
* May 11 - Kamau Brathwaite (died 2020), Caribbean native of Barbados, writer, poet, dramatist and academic
* May 12 - Mazisi Kunene (died 2006), South African poet
* May 23 - Friedrich Achleitner (died 2019), Austrian architect and poet
* June 9 - Roberto Fernández Retamar (died 2019), Cuban poet and literary critic
* June 11 - Roy Fisher (died 2017), English poet and jazz pianist
* June 23 - Anthony Thwaite (died 2021), English poet, writer and editor, married to the writer Ann Thwaite
* August 17 - Ted Hughes (died 1998), English poet and children's writer, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1984
* September 25 - Shel Silverstein (died 1999), American writer of children's verse
* October 10 - Harold Pinter (died 2008), English playwright, poet, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, human rights activist, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature
* October 24 - Elaine Feinstein (died 2019), English poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator
* November 16 - Chinua Achebe (died 2013), Nigerian writer and poet
* November 19 - Bernard Noel (died 2021), French poet and writer
* November 20 - Bai Hua (died 2019), Chinese poet, dramatist and novelist
* December 2 - Jon Silkin (died 1997), English poet
* December 27 - Attoor Ravi Varma (died 2019), Indian Malayalam poet and translator
* Also:
* Tony Connor, English poet and playwright
* Adolph Endler, German[19]
* Brian Higgins (died 1965), British poet, mathematician and rugby league player

## Deaths

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Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

* March 2 - D. H. Lawrence (born 1885), English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic, from tuberculosis
* April 10 - Alfred Williams (born 1877), English "hammerman poet"
* April 14 - Vladimir Mayakovsky (born 1893), Russian poet, committed suicide
* April 21 - Robert Bridges (born 1844), English Poet Laureate
* April 29 - Maria Polydouri (born 1902), Greek poet, from tuberculosis

## See also

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* Poetry portal

* Poetry
* List of poetry awards
* List of years in poetry
* New Objectivity in German literature and art
* Oberiu movement in Russian art and poetry

## Notes

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1. ^ "Biographical Sketch," Dr. Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey fonds, Lib.UNB.ca, Web, Jan. 5, 2009.
2. ^ Search results: Wilson MacDonald, Open Library, Web, May 10, 2011.
3. ^ Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
5. ^ Web page titled "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" Archived 2009-02-21 at the Wayback Machine at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009
6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602-1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
7. ^ "Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970-2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
8. ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837
9. ^ Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
10. ^ Hartley, Anthony, editor, The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967
11. ^ a b c d e Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0-394-52197-8
12. ^ Classe, Olive, editor, Encyclopedia of literary translation into English, "Henri Michaux" article, p 945, Volume 2, publisher: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000, retrieved via Google Books, August 10, 2009
13. ^ a b c d e f g Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
14. ^ Fitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this book was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 595
15. ^ Debicki, Andrew P., Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond, University Press of Kentucky, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3, retrieved via Google Books, November 21, 2009
16. ^ Fitts, Dudley, editor, Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry/Antología de la Poesía Americana Contemporánea Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, (also London: The Falcoln Press, but this book was "Printed in U.S.A.), 1947, p 649
17. ^ Story, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967
18. ^ "Danish Poetry" article, p 272, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
19. ^ Michael, Hofmann, ed. (2006). Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology. Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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